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07-04-2011, 01:12 AM
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No it doesn't.

From the proportion of the stairs on the trains "head" I estimate each carriage to be about 15 x 8 metres; about 120 m^2. 120 x 1500 (the bone density of humans and we assume mudokons) = 180,000kg.

F=MA, where M =180,000 and A = 98 (OddWorld gravity)
F= 176,400,000

Industrial engineers must be fucking geniuses if they can construct train wheels that can withstand 176 MegaNewtons of downward force.
That's assuming a perfectly filled cuboid of bones. Given that they're being transported whole, the bones' rigid structure and shape will, to some extent, hold them away from each other and result in a packing density significantly less than 1.

Also, we're yet to have any confirmation that Oddworld gravity is 10x Earth gravity. Also also, even if it is 10x stronger; given that every structure, object and creature is structured similar to Earth equivalents, we must assume that materials are also 10x stronger.
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